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Man gets 50 years to life for murder outside nightclub

July 8, 2011 | 3:24
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Jocelyn Mull recalled finding the lifeless body of her 18-year-old son, Eron, lying in an alley near the Beverly Center.

She had rushed to the scene after receiving a phone call from her sister, alerting her to a possible shooting involving her son. She saw Eron’s mouth agape, she said. He had been shot once in the neck. Blood was everywhere.

“A mother never expects -– it’s unthinkable -– to bury her child,” Mull said in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Friday as she demanded the maximum sentence for her son’s killer, Kenneth Webb. “We poured life into him. Dreams. Expectations. This was a child of promise.”

Webb, 20, sat silently in dark jailhouse blues as Mull explained how her son had been a talented percussionist who played for the Crenshaw High School marching band and was preparing to enroll at Prairie View A&M University in Texas on a music scholarship.

Eron Mull was killed Jan. 12, 2008, after he and some friends tried to attend a teenage club party on La Cienega Boulevard. The group was turned away after a fight broke out inside and the party was shut down.

Among those leaving the party was Webb, then 17, who had brought a handgun with him. As Mull and his friends walked back to his car, they noticed Webb and another man at the mouth of the alley staring at them.

After a brief confrontation between one of Mull’s friends and Webb, Webb drew his gun and fired a single shot, striking Mull. A jury convicted Webb of first-degree murder and attempted murder.